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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Saturday, June 8, 1929
The official newspaper of the Publi
cations Union of the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
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Walter Spearman ..... .. .. ..Editor
John 0. Allison Mgr. Edt.
Marion. Alexander Bus. Mgr.
M. W. Jackson. .. Ast. Bus. Mgr.
Saturday, June 8, 1929
A Memorial Perhaps
But a Memorial To What?
Four years ago members of the
present senior class were shown a
handsome building in process of con
struction "That is Graham . Memo
rial, built in honor of President Gra
ham and planned to be used as a
center of all student activities," they.
were told." . ''
Today members "of the senior class
view the same building, in the same
state of incompletion. Is it strange
that today they wonder why this
beautiful memorial has been neglect
ed? Is it remarkable that they ask
who has left this unfinished job? Is
it to be marvelled at "if the . seniors
smile at alumni enthusiasm which was
capable of beginning such an under
taking but which has failed to com
plete it? -'r--...
In short, can it surprise any mem
ber of that great host of Carolina
alumni if any member of the graduat
ing class should set forth as his
opinion that Graham Memorial must
be a memorial to the many , who be
gin splendid works but who never car
ry them through to their conclusion?
To the
Class of 1929
The Class of 1929 concludes about
thirty-two student generations , since
the opening of the University in 1795.
But your -own single college genera
tion now includes twenty-five percent
of the living alumni of the University.
In "other words, the classes of 1925,
1926, 1927. 1928. and 1929 include
more than twenty-five percent of the
University's total body of living alum
ni. Fifty percent of the living alumni
are included in the period since 1917
since the interruptions occasioned by
the Great War.
In other words, you are the prod
ucts of" the modern period in education
in North Carolina, both in high school
and in college, having come' through
both since the . serious disruptions
which followed the war subsided and
our educational agencies had gotten
themselves somewhat stabilized on
their new basis. You have been the
beneficiaries of the new and the high
est public educational endeavor which
the State of North Carolina has ever
supplied. And however inadequate
the educational opportunities which
you may have enjoyed have been- and
there are serious deficiencies which
none of us will ignore yet the educa
tional privileges through which you
have passed are so incomparably su
perior to those being supplied the
youths of the State at the time of
your birth that your educational ex
perience must be counted in a new
and different era the modern era.
And with a rapidity and suddenness
which will amaze you, you are going
to be ushered out into the forefront
of North Carolina life to guide and
to direct our common destiny through
your activities in politics, in business,
in education, in journalism, in the
pulpit, or in whatever other capacity
you may have elected to work.
t
If we may reduce the horizon of
our considerations to our own con
scious entity as a group of Carolina
men, it will possibly be rendered sim
pler to suggest the readiness with
which, you will find yourselves in in
fluential positions in this twisting,
changing life of. ours. Five years
from now, you will be ery near
the center of the University's body of
living alumni. You will know more
alumni, be more familiar with the
psychology and attitude of the young
er half of the alumni body, than al
most any other group of individuals.
And five years is a short time. By
that hour, we will have only just
cooled off from another presidential
election. And possibly none of you
will have yet turned thirty. '
And men at thirty are now - fre
quently world figures certainly com
ing to positions of unusual promin
ence.. Lindbergh became- the greatest
hero, perhaps, in the world's history
while yet a youngster.- The Univer
sity of Chicago has elected a young
man thirty-one years of age to be its
president, and only two or three years
"ago two other of the state universi
ties of the country elected presidents
who were below thirty-five years of
age; two of the partners of J. P. Mor
gan are less than thirty; the director
general of" Eeparations under, the
Dawes settlement had just turned
thirty when he assumed his work;
and one of the thriving young bond
houses of &ew York was founded by
two young students in their late twen
ties.' ' .
If this is not the day of the young
man, certainly this is the day , in
which there is no hesitancy in giving
the young man a chance.
Before you realize it, you as indi
viduals and your class as, a unit are
going to be influential in the intel
lectual life of the State because of
your influence upon this University.
What sort of influence will you ex
ert ?. D. L. G.
The Grads of
Fifty Years Ago
Generally speaking, men are limited
in their efforts to that slow educa
tive process which tends gradually to
increase -mankind's understanding of
the need for co-operation in human
conduct. But now and then a genera
tion seems to be especially favored
with opportunities to Jay new land
marks along the road to progress.
Indeed, it would seem to the student
of North Carolina history that that
class which celebrates the fiftieth an
niversary of its graduation at this
commencement has been an exceeding
ly accomplished one. Of the, class as
a whole it can be said that its mem
bers have utilized their opportunities.
It is in no small measure due to their
efforts that the state of North Caro
lina holds the position of importance
that she does today.
Those who are students at the
University of North Carolina today
were born into American hopes at a
time when. North Carolina had al
ready-made great headway in her
educational and industrial missions,
but those old graduates of fifty years
ago can recall with little difficulty
the time when the educational philos
ophy of this state was in a bad way.
In the opinion of the writer it is due
largely to the efforts of these men
that old and incompetent theories of
education, in North Carolina have been
relegated to their proper places among
the worn-out superstitions and fancies
of educational thought.
As these old alumni gaze at the
beauties of the staid old campus and
contrast it with the campus which
they knew fifty years ago they can
justly conclude that their efforts have
borne fruit thousand fold. J. C. W.
Finished Part of Graham Memorial
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Those Des Moines university stu
dents have solved the problem of how
to get publicity without a winning
football team. Chicago Evening Post.
With H. L. Mencken the pen is
mighty like the sword. Life: t
Influeriza is said to be the popular
illness of today.- It is certainly the
catch of the sea.son.-rGlasgoio Eastern
Standard. .
Anaximander, a Greek, made the
first map of the world.
Kesler Looks at Senior Future
And Makes Amazing Discovery
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and me, the future.
Buck Carr tried for one and one
twelfth years to be a success in the
business world, but due to the fact
that he listened too much to Buck, he
was a failure. He proved to be more
of a success in the social side of life.
He married and is now the proud dad
dy of ten children. I was informed
that his motto was "If you do not
succeed the first time, try and try and
try again." V
. Lois Warden long enjoyed suc
cess in ,the sawdust ring. Her ex
perience in making puppy dogs jump
through hoops, while attending 'Caro
lina,' established her calling in life.
Later, while touring in the Orient, she
took up Esoteri philosophy, and dis
covering the great "SHINE," recog
nized him as the ultimate objective of
her existence. Abandoning her
materialistic life, she lost her soul in
worshiping the "SHINE". Like all
of his followers, she cultivated the
finer feelings so, like the god, him
self, she could say, "I DO NOT
THINK, I FEEL."
There has been a sad case record
ed recently. Mac Leath, the best look
ing boy in his class, had set his
HALF-DONE GRAHAM MEMORIAL, LONG
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LACK OF FUNDS HALTS WORK ON PROJECT
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CLOSED, NOW .OPEN FOR INSPECTION
Few alumni or students know that
the beautiful drawing room pictured
above exists on the University cam
pus, for the building which contains
it has for many months been, closed
up in a state of incompletion. The
picture shows the handsome lobby of
the Graham Memorial .Building. -
Butv during commencement the
building will be thrown open so that
the alumni, seniors', and their guests
may get a glimpse of the interior.
Though pledges sufficient to finish the
Graham Memorial are on -the books,
collections have been so poor that
work on it was halted. It is esti
mated that $100,000 will be needed
to open up the present building, which
is one unit of the memorial as originally-
planned.
Soon after the death of the late
Edward Kidder Graham, former presi
dent of the University, a number of
alumni and students conceived the
idea of erecting a memorial to him.
In consideration of the pressing need
of a students activities building on
the campus, and of the fact that Dr.
Graham had shown such a deep in
terest in student activities, it was de
cided that the project should take the
form of such a building the Graham
Memorial. The actual campaign for
funds got under way in 1919-20 and
the foundations of the building were
then begun, but the "financial stress
of 1920-21 put a temporary halt to
progress. However, the campaign
was vigorously renewed in 1923. At
that time . the goal sought was
$400,000, which would be enough to
erect the central unit of the Memorial
and two wings as well. The following
summer a number of young alumni
and upperelassmen-in the University
made a canvas of the alumni body and
succeeded in getting down on the
books enough pledges to carry the
project to completion. x
But those who had promised money
failed to respond when called upon
for payment of their pledges. The
Memorial was well under way, but
work was halted. It was closed
and remains no further finished
today than it was many months ago.
Since that tjme, repeated attempts to
raise sufficient funds to complete it
have been made, but to no avail. Sev
eral student movements along this
line have been started one back in
1923-24, another last year but all
fell through. -
Before the building can be opened
and made available for student activi
ties, it will be necessary to add the
columns to the portico and do a con
siderable amount of finishing work on
the interior.
heart on being a chorus boy. After
making all the eating clubs, honorary
organizations, and charitable insti
tutions at 'Carolina he set out for the
Big White Way, "where he skilfully
proclaimed his farcial abilities as a
chorus boy. He was disillusioned by
the producers who told him in no un
certain words that he hadn't the sex
appeal.
Emily McClelland, the most popular
co-ed in her class after graduation,
was signed by the Louville, Ky., De
partment of ' Education. . Here she
still retained her popularity as evi
denced by the fact that on poppy day,
a crowd of poppers bought all of her
poppys. An elongated track star,
formerly from 'Carolina' spied her
and sat down beside her and frighten
ed the rest away.
John Norwood, White, a famed
philosopher with an equally famous
name, was caught in the throes of a
passionate outburst while revising the
ancient Hebrew story of Balaam and
the animal who rebuked him and was
driven. to drink to satisfy his unquen
chable thirst. Then the Salvation
Army came to his rescue John is not
the man he used, to be, for now he
sings whiskey tenor in their band.
Dick Wal&er has recently been
honored by President Haste of the
N. C. Institute for Boys and Misses.
(Continued on page four)
Elaborate Ball in Swain Hall
To Be Final Event Today
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Chapel Hill; Mrs. Charles T. Woollen,
Chapel Hill; Mrs.-Marvin H. Stacy,
Chapel Hill; -Mrs. Louis R. Wilson,
Chapel Hill; Mrs. Daniel L. Grant,
Chapel Hill; Miss Alice Noble,
Chapel Hill ; -Mrs. R. H. Sykes, Dur
ham; Mrs. W. J. Brogden, Durham;
Mrs. W S Bernard, Chapel Hill;
Mrs. Kemp P. Lewis, Durham; Mrs.
J. Frazier Glenn, Asheville; Mrs.'
William Dunn, Jr., New Bern; Mrs.
J. H. Pearson, Jr., Richmond, VaT';
Mrs. J. Horner Winston, Evanston,
111.; Mrs. Albert Coates, Chapel Hill;
Mrs. Luther Hodges, Spray; Mrs. W.
M. Blount, Durham; Mrs. W. D. Car
michael, Jr, New York City; Mrs.
John Sprunt Hill, Durham; Mrs. Les
lie Weil, Greensboro; Mrs. O. Max
Gardner, Raleigh ; Mrs. George H.
Kirby, New York; Mrs. C. A. Shore,
Raleigh; Mrs. James'P.-Bunn, Rocky
Mount ;' Mrs. I.. W. Hughes, Hender
son; and Mrs. N. A. Townsend, Dunn.
Officer Makes Statistical
Use of Senior Class
(Continued from page one)
average age of the. class today, 21.22;
youngest man, Harry McGalliard, 17;
oldest man, L. C. Cheek, 32; average
height 5 feet 9.9 inches; and lung
capacity, 212. -
The shortest man in the class is
T. J. Collier and the tallest is W. L.
Harper. '
Statistics from the Library reveal
the class of '29 as extremely literary :
the average number of books borrow
ed from the Library by each senior
during theyear is 61. Twenty-five
years ago the average was 11 books.
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Take Home With You
an album
of pictures
of your Alma Mater
We Have All the Views
of the University
and Chapel Hill
We Also Lend Kodaks
Fre e
Students Supply Store
Everything in Stationery
(Next Methodist Church)
- Swim
and be
Cool
It's just a mile out. A
perfect place for a nice
swim or a picnic.
Jantzen, Rugby and
Hercules Suits
For Rent or Sale
Refreshments and Picnic
Tables
Sparrow's Pool
FOLLOW THESIGNRoad turns left first block after
: you cross the railroad, at Carrboro.
Tie Old Soiitiierii
Fried Chicken
The Old Carolina
Hospitality
All Await You at
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Pittsboro Road Half -Mile Out
, J. E. GOOCH, Prop.
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Alumni Headquarters
Gas Oil Tires
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. A-queer combination to offer in an ad, but that's what
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Alumni on this 134th Commencement and ex
tend to .each and all a hearty invitation to
come back and talk over days of yore "
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